Recent advancements in laparoscopic surgery have enabled surgeons to perform colon resections using the laparoscope.  Many surgeons argue about the benefits of this procedure over the old, conventional open approach but they all agree that if it is performed by an experienced laparoscopic surgeon, the results are as good as the open procedure.

While this is an important benefit, the laparoscopic approach is many times superior to the conventional approach because it dramatically lowers the wound infection rate and chance of post operative incisional hernia complications found with open colon resection.